All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONDon’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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